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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that provides a common data model and an extensive set of business processes. But without proper guidance on developing performance-critical applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions. The power and promise of Apache OFBiz is comprehensively revealed in a collection of self-contained, quick, practical recipes in this Cookbook. This book covers a range of topics from initial system setup to web application and HTML page creation, Java development, and data maintenance tasks. Focusing on a series of the most commonly performed OFBiz tasks, it provides clear, cogent, and easy-to-follow instructions designed to make the most of your OFBiz experience. Let this book be your guide to enhancing your OFBiz productivity by saving you valuable time. Written specifically to give clear and straightforward answers to the most commonly asked OFBiz questions, this compendium of OFBiz recipes will show you everything you need to know to get things done in OFBiz. Whether you are new to OFBiz or an old pro, you are sure to find many useful hints and handy tips here. Topics range from getting started to configuration and system setup, security and database management through the final stages of developing and testing new OFBiz applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache OFBiz Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

About the Reviewers

Adrian Crum is an IT Manager/Computer programmer for a company that builds homes. Prior to that, he owned and operated a computer retail/service/consulting business. He was Technical Editor of Coast Compute Magazine, and a contributing writer for Programmer's Journal. Adrian has been involved with the Apache OFBiz project as a contributing programmer since 2004, and he is a member of the Project Management Committee. His extensive experience in many programming languages and cross-platform development has been a key part of his contributions to the Apache OFBiz project.

Shi Jinghai graduated from Tsinghua University in 1991. In 2001, he took part in the China 2G Citizen Card Project and became an important system designer of the National Citizen Identity Information System of China. In 2004, he started his own company (Beijing Langhua Ltd.) focusing on IT services based on some excellent open source projects such as OFBiz, OpenCms, JBoss Portal, and Jasig CAS among others.